Abraham uebent



A. LIEBEN.

BATHING SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 30,1911- RENEWED AUG. 26.1919- '1,319,680. IPatented Oct. 21,1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 21, 1919.

Application filed November 80, 1917, Serial Io. 204,585. Renewed August28, 1919. Serial No. 820,049.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known t at.I, ABRAHAM LIEBEN, a citizen of the United States,residinsg at New York county of New York, and tate ork, have invented anew and in is a specification.

e ob]ect of my invention is to provide an improved bathing shoe whichcan be made at small expense Figurel is a perspective of my invention;gig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; an

Fig. 3 is a detail of the blank which forms the sole. v

Like numerals designate like parts in each of 1%; views. h dr errmg' tot e accompan awlngs my shoe has two strips of f li ric 1, whicli aresewed together on a vertical line extendmg u ward from the heel. form eupper of the shoe. strip 8 conceals the seam.

These strips A reinforcing The fabric uppers are'sewed to a fabric sole9. I further provide a leather sole 2 formed from a single blank ofsufiicient size to conceal the seam between the fabric upper 1 and thefabric sole 9. The rear portion of this blank has a V- sha (1 cut outportion 5. The sides of-the bl and the sides are also inwardl curved atto conform to the narrow portion of the shoe nearthe toe, and the toeend of the blank has an approximately V-shaped cut out portion, thesides 3 of which, however, are

curved as shown.

are curved inwardly at 4 to substantially as shown.

This form of blank can be readily sewed to the shoe. The edges 3 at thetoeend and the ed es 5 at the heel meet, and the opposing e ges in eachinstance require but a single ine of stitching to provides, leather soleof correct shape. This sole is sewed to the fabric upper 1, as shown inFig. 1. The portions 2, 6, 7, and 8 are of leather, the rest of the shoebeing of fabric.

What I claim is:

1. A fabric bathing shoe eonsistin fabric upper, ble leather sole formedfrom a single blank of sufiicient size to conceal the seam between thefabric upper and the fabric sole, the aforesaid blank havingapproximatel V- shaped cut out ortions at the heel an toe, the edges ofw ich meet, a single-line of stitching extending upwardly over the toeand a smgle line of stltching extending upwardly over the heel securingthe edges, of the cut-out portions above described, and a single line ofstitching securing the upper edge of the sole blank to the fabric upper.

2. In a bathin shoe, the combinatlon of an pper formed from two stripsof fabric 1, a abric sole 9 sewed tothe aforesaid upper, a light andflexible leather sole 2 formed from a single blank and sewed to the 11per, aving cutout ends 3 and 5, a line of stitching securing therespective edges of said out out ends together, and leather reinforcingstrips 6, 7 and 8 sewed to the fabric upper,

of a

ABRAHAM LIEBEN.

a fabric sole, a light an flexi-

